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Free Download Julian Johnson, "After Debussy: Music, Language, and the Margins of Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 0190066822 | 2020 | 396 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB
Classical music shows a close relationship to language, and both musicology and philosophy have tended to approach music from that angle, exploring it in terms of expression, representation, and discourse. This book turns that idea on its head. Focusing on the music of Debussy and its legacy in the century since his death, After Debussy offers a groundbreaking new perspective on twentieth-century music that foregrounds a sensory logic of sound over quasi-linguistic ideas of structure or meaning. Author Julian Johnson argues that Debussy’s music exemplifies this idea, influencing the music of successive composers who took up the mantle of emphasizing sound over syntax, sense over signification. In doing so, this music not only anticipates a central problem of contemporary thought-the gap between language and our embodied relation to the world-but also offers a solution.

Free Download Richard A. Schroeder, "Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race, and Nation in Tanzania"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 025300599X | PDF | pages: 249 | 12.5 mb
Tracing the expansion of South African business into other areas of Africa in the years after apartheid, Richard A. Schroeder explores why South Africans have not always made themselves welcome guests abroad. By looking at investments in Tanzania, a frontline state in the fight for liberation, Schroeder focuses on the encounter between white South Africans and Tanzanians and the cultural, social, and economic controversies that have emerged as South African firms assume control of local assets. Africa after Apartheid affords a penetrating look at the unexpected results of the expansion of African business opportunities following the demise of apartheid.

Free Download Pieter Vanhove, "World Literature After Empire: Rethinking Universality in the Long Cold War "
English | ISBN: 103204456X | 2023 | 212 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book makes the case that the idea of a "world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War and in the wake of decolonization a plethora of historical attempts were made to reinvent the notions of world literature, world art, and philosophical universality from an anticolonial perspective. Contributing to recent debates on world literature, the postcolonial, and translatability, the book presents a series of interdisciplinary and multilingual case studies spanning Europe, the United States, and China. The case studies illustrate how individual anti-imperialist writers and artists set out to remake the conception of the world in their own image by offering a different perspective centered on questions of race, gender, sexuality, global inequality, and class. The book also discusses how international cultural organizations like the Afro-Asian Writers’ Bureau, UNESCO, and PEN International attempted to shape this debate across Cold War divides.

Free Download Angel M. Rabasa, "The Muslim World After 9/11"
English | 2004 | pages: 568 | ISBN: 0833035347, 0833037129 | PDF | 5,1 mb
This new book examines the major dynamics driving changes in the religio-political landscape of the Muslim world.

Free Download Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn By Adele E. Clarke
2005 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 0761930566 | PDF | 43 MB
Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn provides an innovative approach to grounded theory useful in a wide array of qualitative research projects. Extending Anselm Strauss’s ecological social worlds/arenas/discourses framework, this book offers researchers three kinds of maps that place anemphasis on the range of differences rather than commonalities, as found via the traditional grounded theory approach. These maps include situational, social worlds/arena, and positional maps.

Free Download Ruha Benjamin, "Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code"
English | ISBN: 1509526404 | 2019 | 172 pages | AZW3 | 1077 KB
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.

Free Download Political Economy After Economics: Scientific Method and Radical Imagination By David Laibman
2011 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0415619297 | EPUB | 6 MB
This re-incorporation of economics into political economy is one (small, but not insignificant) element in a larger project: to place all of the resources of present-day social-scientific research at the service of increasing democracy, in an ultimate direction toward socialism in the classic sense. An economics-enriched political economy is, above all, empowering: working people in general can calculate, build models, think theoretically, and contribute to a human-worthy future, rather than leaving all this to their "betters."

Free Download Andie Tucher, "Happily Sometimes After: Discovering Stories from Twelve Generations of an American Family"
English | ISBN: 1625341288 | 2014 | 328 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
For more than four hundred years, members of the author’s family have been telling stories about their American lives. They have told of impassioned elopements and heart-breaking kidnaps, of hairbreadth escapes and shocking murders, of bigamists, changelings, patriots, Indians, fires, floods, and how the great-grandmother of Chief Justice John Marshall married the pirate Blackbeard by mistake.

Free Download Trista Sutter, "Happily Ever After: The Life-Changing Power of a Grateful Heart"
English | 2014 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 0738217980, 0738216658 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Trista Rehn was a pediatric physical therapist moonlighting as a Miami Heat dancer when she heard about casting for a new reality show-one guy getting to know twenty-five girls in the hope of finding a fiancée. As improbable and crazy as it sounded, Trista took the chance-and had her heart broken on the very first season of The Bachelor. But the next season, as the first Bachelorette, her fairy tale fell into place during a whirlwind courtship with poetry-writing firefighter Ryan Sutter and, eventually, a dream-come-true wedding on national TV.

Free Download Robert Talisse, "Democracy After Liberalism: Pragmatism and Deliberative Politics"
English | 2004 | pages: 173 | ISBN: 041595018X, 0415950198 | PDF | 0,8 mb
This book critically evaluates liberalism, the dominant attempt in the tradition of political philosophy to provide a philosophical foundation for democracy, and argues for a conception of deliberative democracy to meet this need.